Friday, January 31, 2020

January Garden

How can you make spring flowers grow in January?


Easy. Just write about them so they come alive inside your mind and heart.

Start with the itty bitty crocuses -- yellow, white and purple -- that can poke up even in a late season snow.

Go forward to the dazzling tulips that bloom in yellow, red, orange, pink, purple and so many other colors.

When spring is in full force, there will be hyacinth and daffodils,
bleeding heart, phlox, lupine, dogwood, magnolia, lilac, poppies, rhododendron, azalea and many more.

Before you know it, a whole garden has risen up in your imagination. Stay with it and let Mother Nature plant her finery in your soul.

It's a great way to get through winter!


Wednesday, January 01, 2020

All at Once


I stop and
drop inside
into silence
where energy
sensation
settles thick in my
arms and legs
abdomen back and torso.
And there I
stay feeling the
breath come in
And
outside the window
I see the grey
mottled clouds above
and thin patches of
white snow on the brown meadow.
How long it has
Taken me to
Understand
Really know
That the PRESENT MOMENT
Is simply the Now of ETERNITY.
When you see it
That way
You feel ever so
Briefly ever so
Much closer
To INFINITY.

And then you’re
Back in the old
Head and there
Is a runner in a
Turquoise sweatshirt
Moving quickly down
The road at the other
Side of that meadow.
Oh how I wish I could
Go running. Because
Of my knees I have begun
To walk, and today because
Of a wickedly thick  congestion
In my head I am
Holding forth on
The sofa.
JUST WATCHING.
Waiting.
So terribly excited.
That I might
be
PRESENT.
At
Any
MOMENT.